Comparative politics notes and readings - Macridis, R.C.; Brown, Bernard E. (Homewood, Illinois Dorsey Press, 1972)
National character/ Alex Inkeles -- Social structure and the ruling class/ Raymond Aron -- Comparative political systems/ Gabriel A. Almond -- Approaches to the study of political power/ Franz L. Neuman -- The functional prerequisites of society/ D.F. Aberle, A. K. Cohen, A. K. Davis et. al. -- The analysis of political systems/ David easton -- The search for focus/ Roy C. Macridis -- The political formula/ Gaetano Msca -- The myth of authority/ Robert M. MacIver -- Some social requisites of democracy/ Seymour M. Lipset -- An assessement of democracy/ Robert A. Dahl. -- Notes on the theory of Dictatorship/ Franz L. Neumann -- A comparative politics of movement regimes/ Robert C. Tucker -- Interest groups and the political process/ Gabriel A. Almond -- Groups and group theory/ Roy C. Macridis -- The Iron law of oligarchy/ Robert Michels -- The transformation of the Western European party systems/ Otto Kirhheimer -- Political parties: some sceptical reflections/ Anthony King -- Working class politics in Western Europe/ Val R. Lorwin -- Decline of ideology: a dissent and an interpretation --The Frenchstudents revolt/ Bernard E. Brown -- The proper functions of representative bodies/ John Stuart Mill -- The crisis of modern parliaments/ Karl Dietrich Bracher -- National Constitutions: a functional approach/ Ivo D. Duchacek -- Bureaucracy: the ideal type/ Max Weber -- Bureaucracies: some contrast in systems/ Wallace . Sayre -- Complexity and Contrl/ C.B. Mac Person -- The Parliamentary Ombudsman/ Donald C. Rowat -- Modern technology/ Thorstein Veblen -- Social mobilization and Political development/ Karl W. Deautsch -- The change to change/ Samuel P. Huntington -- Modernization and democracy in Japan/ Robert E. Ward -- The French experience of modernization/ Bernard E. Brown -- Transitions to democracy/ Dankwart A. Rustow -- The historical tendency of capitalist accumulation/ Karl Marx -- The anatomy of revolution/ Crane Brinton -- On Peasant rebellions/ Eric R. Wolf -- Anomie/ Emile Durkheim -- The end of Utopia/ Herbert Marcuse -- Unreason and revolution/ Richard Lowenthal.
Keywords: Comparative government